A Science Driven Production Cyberinfrastructure—the Open Science Grid
- Creators
- Altunay, Mine
- Avery, Paul
- Blackburn, Kent
- Bockelman, Brian
- Ernst, Michael
- Fraser, Dan
- Quick, Robert
- Gardner, Robert
- Goasguen, Sebastien
- Levshina, Tanya
- Livny, Miron
- McGee, John
- Olson, Doug
- Pordes, Ruth
- Potekhin, Maxim
- Rana, Abhishek
- Roy, Alain
- Seghal, Chander
- Sfiligoi, Igor
- Wuerthwein, Frank
- Open Science Grid Executive Board
Abstract
This article describes the Open Science Grid, a large distributed computational infrastructure in the United States which supports many different high-throughput scientific applications, and partners (federates) with other infrastructures nationally and internationally to form multi-domain integrated distributed systems for science. The Open Science Grid consortium not only provides services and software to an increasingly diverse set of scientific communities, but also fosters a collaborative team of practitioners and researchers who use, support and advance the state of the art in large-scale distributed computing. The scale of the infrastructure can be expressed by the daily throughput of around seven hundred thousand jobs, just under a million hours of computing, a million file transfers, and half a petabyte of data movement. In this paper we introduce and reflect on some of the OSG capabilities, usage and activities.
Additional Information
© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Received: 24 November 2010. Accepted: 24 November 2010. Published online: 30 December 2010. We acknowledge the many contributors and sponsors of the OSG use and work.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 23779
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10723-010-9176-6
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20110524-102147827
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